
(1921, p. 10)
Factory organization and administration, 1910
Vol II. p. 23 as cited in: Hopf (1947).
1940s, The Making Of Scientific Management, 1945
(1921, p. 10)
Factory organization and administration, 1910
As We May Think (1945)
Context: Babbage, even with remarkably generous support for his time, could not produce his great arithmetical machine. His idea was sound enough, but construction and maintenance costs were then too heavy. Had a Pharaoh been given detailed and explicit designs of an automobile, and had he understood them completely, it would have taxed the resources of his kingdom to have fashioned the thousands of parts for a single car, and that car would have broken down on the first trip to Giza.
Poe stating his arguments that Maelzel's Chess-Player was a hoax. Maelzel's Chess-Player http://www.eapoe.org/works/essays/maelzel.htm, Southern Literary Journal (April 1836).
Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat (1824)
Source: About Looking (1980), Chapter "Why Look at Animals?"
Attributed to Henry R. Towne in: William Kent (1914) Investigating an Industry, p. 3-4
Comment: William Kent mentions the "The Engineer as an Economist," (1886) as the source.
W. W. Rouse Ball, History of Mathematics, (London, 1901), p. 451
Shōji Shiba, New American TQM. Productivity press, 1993. p. 463
Shiba talks about Kiyoshi Uchimaru, who was president of NEC's main microchip design subsidiary in the 1980s.